Pushing the Limit of Carbon Cycle Disturbance May Contribute to Mass Extinctions (IMAGE)

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Pushing the Limit of Carbon Cycle Disturbance May Contribute to Mass Extinctions

Caption

Sedimentary rocks at Meishan, China. These rocks contain signatures of a disturbance in the carbon cycle immediately preceding Earth's greatest mass extinction. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Sept. 20, 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by D.H. Rothman at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., and colleagues was titled, "Thresholds of catastrophe in the Earth system."

Credit

[Credit: Shuzhong Shen]

Usage Restrictions

Please cite the owner of the material when publishing. This material may be freely used by reporters as part of news coverage, with proper attribution. Non-reporters must contact <i>Science</i> for permission.

License

Licensed content

Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert system.